Alan Winfield
Alan Winfield | |
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| Born | 1956 Burton on Trent, UK |
| Alma mater | University of Hull |
| Scientific career | |
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| Thesis | Maximum-Likelihood Sequential Decoding of Convolutional Error-Correcting Codes (1984) |
| Doctoral advisor | Dr Rodney Goodman |
| Website | https://people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/AlanWinfield |
Alan Winfield (born 1956) is a British engineer and educator.[1] He is Professor of Robot Ethics at UWE Bristol[2], Honorary Professor at the University of York[3], and Associate Fellow in the Cambridge Centre for the Future of Intelligence.[4] His work is focused on two areas: cognitive robotics and robot ethics|robot/AI ethics.[5][6][7][8][9][10]
Early life and education
Winfield was born in Burton on Trent where he attended Burton Grammar School[11]. He studied electronic engineering for both BSc and PhD, majoring in telecommunications, at the University of Hull from 1974 to 1984. Following his first degree he won an SERC scholarship to study for PhD in the field of information theory and error-correcting codes under the supervision of Rodney Goodman.[12]
Career
Winfield's first faculty appointment was as lecturer in the department of electronic engineering at the University of Hull, from 1981 to 1984. During this period he published his first book, a guide to the programming language Forth, The Complete Forth (1983).[13] Winfield also invented an architecture for executing native Forth at machine level.[14]
In 1984 Winfield resigned his lectureship and founded, with Rod Goodman, Metaforth Computer Systems Ltd, with the aim of commercializing the Forth machine.[15][16]
In 1992 Winfield was appointed Hewlett-Packard Professor of Electronic Engineering and Associate Dean (Research) at UWE, Bristol, where he co-founded the Bristol Robotics Laboratory. From 2009 to 2016 he was director of UWE's Science Communication Unit.[17]
Public Engagement
From 2006 to 2009, with Noel Sharkey, Owen Holland and Frank Burnet[18], Winfield led public engagement project Walking with Robots.[19] The project was designed to encourage children into science and technology careers, and to involve the public in discussions about robotics research issues.[20] In 2010 Walking with Robots was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering Rooke Medal for public promotion of engineering.[21]
In 2009 Winfield was awarded an EPSRC Senior Media Fellowship, to support and develop his engagement with the press and media.[22] During the fellowship Winfield also wrote Robotics: A Very Short Introduction.[23]
Winfield's media appearances include BBC Radio 4 The Life Scientific[24], and BBC TV HARDtalk.[25][26]
Robot Ethics
In 2016 Winfield joined the IEEE Global Initiative on ethics of Intelligence and Autonomous Systems. As chair of the General Principles group[27] he helped to draft Ethically Aligned Design.[28] He is a member of the initiative's executive committee[29], and chaired the working group that drafted IEEE Standard 7001-2021 on Transparency of Autonomous Systems.[30]
References
- ↑ "Oral-History:Alan Winfield, Engineering and Technology History Wiki". Retrieved 9 May 2023.
- ↑ "Professor Alan Winfield". Retrieved 9 May 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "School of Physics, Engineering and Technology". Retrieved 24 May 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Alan Winfield Associate Fellow". Retrieved 9 May 2023.
- ↑ Mark Ward (8 June 2012). "Dancing robots reveal cultural cues". BBC News. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
- ↑ Boer Deng (1 July 2015). "Machine ethics: The robot's dilemma". Nature. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
- ↑ Tessel Renzenbrink (22 January 2016). "Ethical Robots and Robot Ethics". Elektor. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
- ↑ Chris Baraniuk (17 August 2018). "How to Make a Robot Use Theory of Mind". Scientific American. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
- ↑ Ellie Zolfagharifard (14 March 2021). "The British engineers creating robots that 'breed'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
- ↑ Brian Gallagher (23 March 2022). "Robots Show Us Who We Are". Nautilus. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
- ↑ "Burton Grammar School Old Boys' Association". Retrieved 9 May 2023.
- ↑ "Rod Goodman". Retrieved 9 May 2023.
- ↑ "The Complete Forth". Retrieved 9 May 2023.
- ↑ "United States Patent no 4,974,157, Data Processing System" (PDF). Retrieved 9 May 2023.
- ↑ "APD Communications Ltd". Retrieved 11 May 2023.
- ↑ Dick Pountain (March 1985). "Byte UK: Multitasking Forth". Byte. McGraw-Hill. pp. 363–371. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
- ↑ "Science Communication Unit members". Retrieved 12 May 2023.
- ↑ "Frank Burnet". Retrieved 31 May 2023.
- ↑ "EPSRC Grants on the web". Retrieved 31 May 2023.
- ↑ Christine Evans-Pughe (4 April 2007). "Masters of their fate?". Engineering and Technology. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
- ↑ "RAEng Rooke Medal previous winners". Retrieved 31 May 2023.
- ↑ "EPSRC Grants on the Web". Retrieved 3 June 2023.
- ↑ Alan Winfield (27 September 2012). Robotics: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
- ↑ "The Life Scientific". 21 February 2017. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
- ↑ "HARDtalk". 31 October 2017. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
- ↑ "HARDtalk Alan Winfield". 31 October 2017. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
- ↑ "IEEE EAD First Edition Committees List" (PDF). Retrieved 31 May 2023.
- ↑ "Ethically Aligned Design" (PDF). Retrieved 31 May 2023.
- ↑ "The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems" (PDF). Retrieved 31 May 2023.
- ↑ "IEEE Standard for Transparency of Autonomous Systems". Retrieved 31 May 2023.
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